The journal Current Biology, in celebrating its 25th birthday (congratulations!), published a special issue that includes two articles touching on the Ig Nobel Prizes. Geoffrey North, the journal’s editor, wrote an editorial called “The Biology of Fun and the Fun of Biology“: Both [the artist] Magritte and [the artistic chef] el Bulli illustrate one aspect of ‘fun’ that is relevant to Current Biology […]
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The year 2014 in hair (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Clubs for Scientists — LFHCfS)
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists has a new member gallery with details on all the new members inducted during the year 2014. The 2014 Membership Gallery covers all 3 of the (conjoined triplet) hair clubs: The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists, and the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club […]
Winningly cute animals of science
Nature magazine assembled this video of the alleged Year’s Ten Cutest Animals in Science. Number 9 was awarded the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize for biology: When you watch and listen to the video, pay special attention to the narrator’s very first sentence. It’s a not-so-subtle, friendly dig at Nature‘s rival journal, Science. (Thanks to Connie Villalba for […]
Feynman on the difference between names and what’s going on
Richard Feynman told stories that got people thinking. This passage from a talk Feynman gave at a meeting of the National Science Teachers Association in 1966 in New York City, was later printed — as part of a transcript of the entire talk — in The Physics Teacher, vol. 7, issue 6, 1969, pp. 313-320. The next day, Monday, we […]